CVE-2014-1422: Location service uses cached authorization even after revocation

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-275

Description

In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in src/core/trust/impl/sqlite3/store.cpp. Fixed in trust-store (Ubuntu) version 1.1.0+15.04.20150123-0ubuntu1 and trust-store (Ubuntu RTM) version 1.1.0+15.04.20150123~rtm-0ubuntu1.

Affected products

Canonical Trust-Store (Ubuntu): before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0
Canonical Trust-Store (Ubuntu Rtm): before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Trust-Store (Ubuntu) 1.1.0; Canonical Trust-Store (Ubuntu Rtm) 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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